[NTLK] Rip off potential on eBay for flash cards

[Forrest]

I’m not convinced, even a little, that Steve Jobs was petty enough to kill the Newton just because John Sculley initiated the project and helped move it along. While we have seen that Jobs was capable of such small-minded pettiness, at the time he had just returned and was saddled with the rather large task of saving Apple from oblivion. Much of what I have read discussed how he felt the Newton could actually harm sales of the Macintosh—although in retrospect that seems silly, as they were two different platforms with very different purposes.

Jobs was gifted with remarkable insight. Perhaps somehow he knew or at least sensed that soon a company called Palm would be successfully marketing a device half the size of the MP2100, the PalmPilot—at $300, 1/3 the cost of a new Newton. (Wikipedia notes that “Palm sold over 1 million [PalmPilots] by 1998.”)

For me, there was and is no comparison between the PalmPilot and a MP2100–or really any Newton. Our green-screen friend can run rings around the other device in terms of productivity and overall usability. But, sadly, we Newton users are not the average consumer, and the average consumer preferred the Palm by a 2-1 margin, according the sales estimates we have (Apple traditionally does not release exact sales figures).

Mahalo,
Forrest

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> On Jul 30, 2021, at 12:28 PM, Allen Russell <Allen.Russell at messer-us.com> wrote:
> 
> Michael,
> 
> I looked in my newton bag, and I have a Pretec 32MB card.  p/n FAD032-P.  I wrote in pencil on it "MP2100 backup 2003", so I know it works (or did work).  Send me a message if you're interested.  You can have it for the cost of shipping, where are you?
> 
> Allen
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:36:25 -0400
> From: Michael Rebar <michael.rebar at gmail.com>
> To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Rip off potential on eBay for flash cards
> Fantastic information from those that replied. Thanks!
> I found 2 Viking linear cards, 24 MB each, the set for $30 USD that were heavily used likely from routers.
> For my use case for meta-data storage space and not long term storage these cards should fulfill that role nicely.
> Realize ?collector status? more expensive for the esthetic/status. No problem with that. One of the invigorating messages of ?Love Notes? was keeping these devices going.
> My use case is not really collecting for posterity but is to expand the horizon for MP2100s toward AI development as the core ARM CPU is foundation of mobile and desktop Apple devices. Emulated Einstein is where some developing coding will occur, but on device portability with the NewtonOS really is where I finding more focus to get this done. So if I burn out these cards doing that then not wasting the cache of ?collectibles?.
> Time has come for Newton to do its thing. Apple will not Einstein in the Apps Store, but a product designed on Newton technology could just turn that market upside down.
> Steve was not afraid of Newton when he killed it, he was jealous a Pepsi guy figured out the formula for making Coke before he could. Nothing against Macintosh, but it ain?t a Newton.
> Just cause Newton is older tech does not make it obsolete by a long shot.
> So if you have storage cards in the 32 MB size, and want to put to use, I still need 2 more. Drop me a line if interested in selling.
> Michael Rebar
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